Landscape Assessment of the Recreational and Health Cluster “Shartash Forest Park”

The landscape structure of modern Yekaterinburg is formed under the influence of a complex of different-scale factors of formation, the areas of predominant influence of which determine the set and spatial ratio of allotments, the nature of boundaries and the speed of development of geosystems of different ranks. The spatial and temporal landscape structure of a megalopolis determines the quality of the urban environment through a complex of stable environment-forming connections and attractive perception parameters. One of the specific elements of the landscape structure of Yekaterinburg are specially protected natural territories of regional significance – forest parks that perform environmental, environment-forming and recreational functions. The article is devoted to the results of inventory and assessment landscape studies of the territory of the recreation and health cluster “Shartash Forest Park”, located in the northeastern part of Yekaterinburg.